A black cat slips across your path, tail high and eyes bright — and for centuries, people have argued about what it means.
In Britain and Japan a black cat is a sign of good luck, while old European superstition called it an omen — and the truth is far kinder than the fear.
Black cats wait longest in shelters because of that old myth, yet anyone who shares a home with one knows they bring nothing but quiet company and a little midnight magic.
In this collection you will find 58 Black Cat Quotes on luck, mystery, magic, laughter and love, from famous writers to short captions you can share.
12 Famous Black Cat Quotes on Luck & Superstition
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart.
Edgar Allan Poe
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Groucho Marx
Black cat or white cat; if it can catch mice, it is a good cat.
Deng Xiaoping
Whenever the cat of the house is black, the lasses of lovers will have no lack.
English Proverb
Animals like crows, owls, or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men’s superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
Charles Darwin
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that is not there, and finding it.
Oscar Wilde
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
Confucius
A black cat will bring its owner good luck.
Unknown
Ships with black cats aboard will always return home safe.
Unknown
If a cat walks towards you, it’s good luck. If one walks away from you, it’s bad luck.
Unknown
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12 Black Cat Quotes on Mystery & Magic
This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.
Edgar Allan Poe
With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.
Edgar Allan Poe
When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, ’tis near Halloween.
Traditional
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.
Unknown
Beware of the night, child. All cats are black in the dark.
Unknown
Black cats are witches in disguise.
Unknown
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
Jules Verne
Forecasting future events is often like searching for a black cat in an unlit room, that may not even be there.
Steve Davidson
Dreaming of black cats will bring you good luck.
Unknown
You will be rewarded with luck if you find a single white hair in a black cat’s coat.
Unknown
If you spot a black cat on a porch, they will bring prosperity.
Unknown
Black cat on a fence; Halloween two days hence.
Rusty Fischer
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11 Funny Black Cat Quotes & One-Liners
Black cat, nine lives. Short days, long nights, livin’ on the edge, not afraid to die.
Janet Jackson
When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.
Unknown
Black cats were created to give everyone the opportunity to be owned by a mini-panther.
Unknown
The movie ‘Black Cat,’ from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.
Kirk Hammett
I’ve had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.
Andrew Bogut
Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.
Penelope Cruz
Every girl needs a little black cat.
Gwen Cooper
When is it bad luck to be followed by a cat? When you are a mouse.
Unknown
What is a black cat’s favorite song? Three Blind Mice.
Unknown
Black cats are certainly bad omens for enemies and good luck for friends.
Unknown
A black cat crossing your path is good luck if you’re a witch.
Unknown
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11 Black Cat Quotes on Love & Companionship
There are no ordinary cats.
Colette
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud
In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.
Joseph Wood Krutch
When the tea is brought at five o’clock, and all the neat curtains are drawn with care, the little black cat with bright green eyes is suddenly purring there.
Harold Monro
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
Ernest Hemingway
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
James Herriot
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
Garrison Keillor
A cat’s purr is nature’s way of saying everything will be all right.
Unknown
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12 Short Black Cat Quotes & Captions
Black cats matter.
Unknown
Not bad luck. Just black fur.
Unknown
Paws and effect.
Unknown
Feline lucky.
Unknown
Every black cat is a little panther.
Unknown
Good luck wears black fur.
Unknown
Nine lives, zero worries.
Unknown
Purr-fectly mysterious.
Unknown
Keep calm and pet the black cat.
Unknown
Midnight has whiskers.
Unknown
Black is the new lucky.
Unknown
A black cat a day keeps bad luck away.
Unknown
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Pick the line that fits your black cat best, share it with someone who still believes the old myth, and let one small midnight friend prove the superstition wrong.
